We studied mutual influences between native and non-native vowel production during learning, i.e., before and after short-term visual articulatory feedback training with non-native sounds. Monolingual French speakers were ...

A major problem in second language acquisition (SLA) is the segmentation
of fluent speech in the target language, i.e., detecting the boundaries of
phonological constituents like words and phrases in the speech stream. ...

How the human brain uses self-generated auditory information during speech production is rather unsettled.
Current theories of language production consider a feedback monitoring system that monitors the auditory
consequences ...

Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Soto, David(Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2020)

Statistical learning is a set of cognitive mechanisms allowing for extracting regularities from the environment and
segmenting continuous sensory input into discrete units. The current study used functional magnetic ...

The ability to suppress responses that are inappropriate, as well as the mechanisms monitoring the accuracy of actions in order to compensate for errors, is central to human behavior. Neural alterations that prevent stopping ...

Developmental dyslexia is one of the most prevalent learning disabilities, thought to be associated with dysfunction in the neural systems underlying typical reading acquisition. Neuroimaging research has shown that readers ...

In spoken word recognition, subphonemic variation influences lexical activation, with sounds near a category boundary increasing phonetic competition as well as lexical competition. The current study investigated the ...

Recent evidence has shown that convergence of print and speech processing across a network of
primarily left-hemisphere regions of the brain is a predictor of future reading skills in children,
and a marker of fluent ...

Studies in patients with brain injury have provided to clinical practice
a wide range of valuable language assessment tools and rehabilitation
strategies. In contrast, the ability to make a proper use of language
adapted ...

Although the default state of the world is that we see and hear other people talking, there is evidence that seeing and hearing ourselves rather than someone else may lead to visual (i.e., lip-read) or auditory “self” ...

No two bilinguals are the same. Differences in bilingual experiences can affect
language-related processes but have also been proposed to modulate executive functioning. Recently,
there has been an increased interest in ...

Intercultural communication has become more and more frequent in the recent globalized
society.When native listeners try to understand non-native speakers, they have to deal with
different types of grammatical errors, ...

The present study explores the role of individual differences in polymorphemic word recognition. Participants completed a masked priming lexical decision experiment on suffixed words in which targets could be preceded by ...

Children of reading age diagnosed with dyslexia show deficits
in reading and spelling skills, but early markers of later
dyslexia are already present in infancy in auditory
processing and phonological domains. Deficits ...

Theories that plantation creoles were all born as pidgins at West African coast slave castles, including that proposed in McWhorter (2000), have not fared well among creolists, amidst a preference for supposing that creoles ...

In one task-switching experiment, we compared bilinguals and monolinguals to explore the reliability of the bilingualism effect on the n-2 repetition cost. In a second task-switching experiment, we tested another group of ...

The information we obtain from how speakers sound—for example their accent—affects how we interpret the
messages they convey. A clear example is foreign accented speech, where reduced intelligibility and speaker's
social ...

In skilled adult readers, transposed-letter effects (jugde-JUDGE) are greater for consonant than for vowel transpositions. These differences are often attributed to phonological rather than orthographic processing. To ...

We explored the overlap between bilingual language control (bLC) and domain-general executive control (EC)
by focusing on inhibitory control processes. We tested 62 bilinguals in linguistic and non-linguistic switching
tasks ...

When a speaker's auditory feedback is altered, he adapts for the perturbation by altering his own production, which demonstrates the role of auditory feedback in speech motor control. In the present study, we explored the ...